Word: silver
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ceremony—which has become an object of cultish delight for audience members—showcases a dizzying sequence of mock tributes and absurd skits, monitored by its mascot Ig: a bespectacled, nearly nude bald man painted silver from head to toe who wandered around carrying a flashlight. The evening also featured genuine Nobel Laureates. Harvard chemistry laureates Dudley R. Herschbach and William N. Lipscomb, as well as physiology or medicine laureate Richard Roberts, presided over the ceremony, leading everything from a can-can dance to a Karaoke rendition of “Can’t Take...
...Ruvida, who is suffering from bone cancer. Bears coach Phil Estes will present him with the first donation to a trust in Ruvida’s name....Brown is sporting new uniforms this season. As a welcome change from their traditional muddy, monochromatic outfits, the Bears will be wearing silver helmets with a red stripe and the Brown logo, silver pants and brown jerseys...
MOVIES: John Sayles' Silver City...
...political satire? Well, more or less at the center of Silver City there's a Bush-like family with a verbally, perhaps mentally, challenged son (Chris Cooper) who's running for Governor of a Western state. Is it a murder mystery? Well, there is this dead body found floating in a lake that everyone is either curious or elaborately incurious about. Is it an assault on America's environmental carelessness? Well, there are a lot of rich guys, led by Kris Kristofferson, doing shabby land deals that kill a lot of innocent fish...
Maybe in this electoral season, when for once our politics are full of high passion (not to mention high dudgeon), Silver City suffers by comparison with reality. Michael Moore, among others, has either raised or lowered the bar on cinematic political discourse. For our sins, we now want something more gripping in tone than an earnest, wearying docudrama. This...